Tupac Shakur’s stepbrother Mopreme Shakur doesn’t believe Sean “Diddy” Combs was being “100 percent honest” when the disgraced music mogul denied playing any part in his sibling’s murder.
Moprene, whose real name is Maurice Shakur, said on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” Friday that he has spoken to Combs, 54, about rumors of his alleged involvement but there’s “doubt” about what he’s said.
Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting after leaving a MGM Grand boxing match in Las Vegas in 1996 amid the height of his rap war with Combs and Christopher Wallace, best known as the Notorious B.I.G.
Because of the years-long feud, many speculated that the Bad Boy Records crew had been involved.
However, Combs said in a now-retracted story in the Los Angeles Times in 2008 that neither he nor Notorious B.I.G. had “any knowledge of any attack on Tupac.”
“My opinion is that I don’t believe it was a 100 percent honest statement,” Moprene told Piers Morgan when asked about those remarks.
“So, again, we gotta find out what’s true and what’s false. What’s real and what’s fake.”
Moprene, 57, shared that Combs once tried to deny the allegations in person, as well, when he happened to be in Los Angeles several years after Tupac died.
DJ Big Boy, a fixture in the hip-hop community, facilitated the meeting, and Moprene agreed to meet with “thug-like guys” beside him to hear what Combs had to say.
“[He] basically said he had nothing to do with my brother’s murder,” former Thug Life rap group member said on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
“I told him, ‘The truth is still yet to come out, so we’re going to see.’ Here we are, 27, 28 years later, it looks like there’s some doubt in that statement, along with all the other suspicions that people have.”
When Morgan, 59, asked if he thought the “It’s All About the Benjamins” rapper was lying to him at the time, Moprene responded, “Quite possibly and it’s kind of looking that way, in my opinion.”
Combs has never been arrested, indicted, or charged in connection to these claims.
However, Moprene concluded that “it’s time” for allegations to be investigated once again.
Page Six exclusively reported in July that Tupac’s family was considering filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Combs over his alleged ties to the “All Eyez on Me” rapper’s fatal shooting.
“People from Diddy’s past are coming forward and providing info,” a source told us at the time.
High-powered attorneys like Alex Spiro who also represents A-list clients like Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Elon Musk were assigned to the case.
The new investigation comes after it had been revealed Duane “Keefe D” Davis, who has been charged with Tupac’s murder, once told Vegas police that Combs allegedly paid $1 million to have Tupac killed.
“[Davis] has asserted publicly that he only told on himself and wasn’t trying to provide evidence against anyone else in his conversations with police,” a July 18 filing from the Clark County District Attorney’s Office and previously obtained by Fox5 read.
“However, this statement belies this claim, as he suggested that Sean Combs paid [drug dealer] Eric Von Martin a million dollars for the killings as well as offered to set up a surreptitious phone call with Terrence Brown, the driver, who, at the time, was still alive.”
Former Los Angeles Police Department detective Greg Kading, who had been working on the “Changes” rapper’s murder case, also claimed in his book, “Murder Rap,” that Davis had confessed to Combs’ ties.
More recently, Tupac’s crime scene investigator Sheryl McCollum pointed out on NewsNation’s “Banfield” last week why she thought the “Bad Boy for Life” rapper may have been involved.
Reps for Combs, who is behind bars as he faces federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.
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